Archive for May, 2010

Pitch, please

Posted by Kristin in Life on May 24, 2010

A while back, I responded to a ProfNet query. Unlike the many times I have done this before, this time I was the expert. Me. Seriously?

Unfortunately, I didn’t hear anything back from the reporter – and I’m not surprised. I didn’t really sell myself. I failed to describe how I was the perfect source for this story. I didn’t convince myself that I should be the expert source, so no wonder she didn’t email me asking for more information.

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What’s your WORD?

Posted by Kristin in Life on May 13, 2010

While on my vacation, I finally got around to reading Eat, Pray, Love. The book, as a whole was great – a wonderful example of writing about personal experiences and simply about self. However, I don’t want to write a review, especially since I am quite possibly one of the last people to have read this book. Instead, there was one small part of the book that I found to be very intriguing.

In conversation with one of the many characters the author comes across throughout her journeys, they discuss the idea of cities having one word. According to this individual: “Every city has a single word that defines it, that identifies with most people who live there… And if your personal word does not match the word of the city, then you don’t really belong there.”

The natural follow-up question to this idea is: What’s your word?

Is this a fluid concept? Does it change as you age, accomplish new things and meet new people?

At the moment, I think my word is BALANCE. Finding equilibrium is consistently on my mind. Work-life balance. Friends-family-fiance balance. Active-lazy. I also like to think this fits in well with Minneapolis-St. Paul. But, I could definitely see others having a different word for the Twin Cities.

What do you think? What’s your word? What’s the Twin Cities’ word?

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Balancing Personal and Professional

Posted by Kristin in Life, Social Media on May 10, 2010

The concept of defining one’s identity online has been discussed endlessly. I’ve worked to develop my professional persona through Twitter and lately, my website. However, as I enter a new stage in my personal life, I feel the need to document and ultimately share these experiences with friends, family and anyone who is interested.

However, I fully acknowledge that my professional contacts and readers of my website (all seven of you, hello!) may not want to read about my struggles with wedding vendors, stresses of budgeting and ideas for cheap dates for poor newlyweds. So I decided I would be one of the many to venture into the world of multiple blogs. Yikes.

This blog will continue to allow me the freedom of posting about a variety of topics – ranging from first date etiquette (thank you Twitter!) and book reviews to PR tactics and mishandled crises. Everything directly related to my personal life, and my transition from single to engaged, and later to becoming a wife (gulp) will be housed on my new site.

As I work to build up content and adjust to maintaining two separate sites, I will be a contributing columnist on Just Judy Judy Judy. Thanks, in part, to a chat with Judy, I feel comfortable and am ready to be the owner of two separate identities online. Eventually, I will be moving to a brand spankin’ new website, but until then check me out at Little Miss Bride to Be.

Here’s the question: How do you balance your personal life with your professional image online? Do you use two separate identities? Or, do you take the opportunity to showcase you as a completely balanced person?

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